"Ronaldo, you liar."

"It's too bad!"

After the game, Dong Fangzhuo ran to the Portuguese dressing room and caught Ronaldo.

A punch slammed into Ronaldo's chest, but it was a grin.

"Congratulations, you've made the cut."

Ronaldo was embarrassed and avoided Dong Fangzhuo a little.

"Uh, you know,"

"China is stronger than Portugal and we want to go to the bottom half of the ......," Ronaldo expressed his thoughts.

"The bottom half should be able to go further, hahaha."

"Just laugh...... Can't you see this year's competition? It's not easy to fight anyone, you have to be careful, don't be as careless as your teammates, you will die if you are careless! ”

"I'm serious."

Ronaldo stopped smiling.

"yes, I know."

'It's been a really weird World Cup and I always feel like it's a big difference from what I used to be. Cristiano Ronaldo agreed, and of course he felt that this cup was different.

Two days later, when all the group matches were over, the tournament organizers counted the group stage, and many records were incredible.

Because of the intervention of VAR technology, there are more penalties.

The 18 penalty kicks held by the 2002 World Cup were set in 64 games, and it took just 36 games to break the record of 18 goals at this World Cup. Since FIFA announced the introduction of VAR in this World Cup, there has been controversy in the outside world. The controversy over VAR has centred more on the result of penalty kicks – a direct cause of the surge in penalties so far at this World Cup. In the 48 games in the group stage, 23 penalties were taken and 18 were scored. Judging by the current trend, the number of penalties will continue to rise.

The second point is that there are a lot of games that don't score!

There were 36 0:0 matches in this World Cup in Russia, and it was not until the third round of the group stage that France 0:0 Denmark was ended, thus breaking the record of 26 games without 0:0 in the 1954 World Cup in Switzerland, and successfully creating the record of the most 0:0 in a single World Cup history.

In the third point, the score of 1:0 is as much as a cow's hair.

1:0 in the group stage of this World Cup has become a bright phenomenon. With Belgium's 1-0 win over England in the final group game, the 13th match of the World Cup with a final score of 1-0 was born. You must know that in the last 2014 World Cup in Brazil, only 12 matches in the entire tournament played 1:0, and the 2018 Russian knockout round has surpassed this value before it has even begun.

Next up is the knockout matchup.

China vs Uruguay, this is known at the end of Group B, but at that time I didn't know which teams were in the top half.

Now everything is clear.

Russia's World Cup 16 roster: Argentina, France, China, Uruguay, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium and Japan in the top half; In the lower half of the blob are Portugal, Russia, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, England and Colombia.

Indeed, Cristiano Ronaldo and his Portugal bet right, they bet on the bottom half, and then the bottom half is obviously much simpler than the top half, at least in terms of the name, the top half is really scary.

The absence of Germany in the 16th is surprising and not surprising, the German tank could not run, but Argentina unexpectedly appeared...... Messi's fate in the national team doesn't look very bad......

However, Argentina's opponent is France, and its fate does not seem to be much better. There are really few people who are optimistic about them, even if Argentina has Messi, and France, which is more powerful, is more optimistic. Of course, France's group stage was not very good, France defeated Australia 2:1 in the first round of the group stage, France beat Peru 1:0 in the second round of the group stage, and France drew 0:0 with Denmark in the final round of the group stage. Three goals were scored in three group games, including one penalty, one own goal and just one open goal. France relied on these three goals to win 2 and draw 1, accumulate 7 points, and won the top spot in Group C.

Argentina is even more miserable, Argentina drew 1:1 with Iceland in the first World Cup in the first game, Croatia defeated Argentina 3:0 in the second round, and Argentina 2:1 Nigeria in the third round.

The other matchups are Brazil vs Mexico and Belgium vs Japan. Portugal vs Russia, Croatia vs Denmark, Sweden vs Switzerland, Colombia vs England.

As for China VS Uruguay?

The Chinese team also played against Uruguay in the last World Cup, and finally the Chinese team defeated Uruguay 3-2, when the game was controversial, Uruguay thought that China would not win, and this year the two teams met again, and Uruguay had a chance to get revenge, as long as they had the ability.

Suarez, the team's ace, believes that "luck can't always be on the side of China, and this year it's time for us to win." ”

"But the strength of the Chinese team is still very strong, Spain were defeated by them, I think we have to show 200 percent strength."

"They have the best players in the world and that's what makes them the most special."

After ceasing to be teammates with Messi, Suarez is not as careful as before, he used to open and close his mouth to say that Messi is the best player in the world, but now he has changed his words.

The media was also careful to capture the highlights of Suarez's words.

"Luiz, didn't you say before that Messi is the best player in the world? How did you become Dong? ”

"Heh, in some years, Messi is indeed the best, but this year's Dong is indeed the best player, and most of the time he is ......"

"But I think the main thing is that Dong didn't appear on the front line, and if he appeared on the front line, I believe he always was." Suarez is not hypocritical at all. His answer actually didn't offend Messi, but he didn't have a high evaluation of Dong Fangzhuo.

"How are you going to beat the Chinese team?"

"Defense,"

"Defend with the best."

"We're going to threaten them with a stronger attack, keep Dong out of our big box and get him back into midfield. I think when we reach the knockout stage, Dong will not play as a striker anymore, if he doesn't return to the midfield, there will be a big problem in the midfield of the Chinese team, they have done this before, and this time is probably no exception. ”

"You mean, except for Dong, everyone else isn't a threat?"

"Let's just say that there are a lot of good players in the Chinese team, but none of them are enough to pose a threat to us. Thankfully, they didn't end up bringing the Brazilians with them, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to deal with them. ”

"You mean naturalized players?"

"Yes, naturalization, that Elkeson's threat is still quite big, if he is on the front line, then Dong can concentrate on playing in the midfield."

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